Prof Dr Ludger Giesberts LL.M.

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About

Prof. Dr Ludger Giesberts advises companies, financial institutions, trade associations, public companies, federal and state authorities and municipalities on all matters of public commercial law. He focuses on environmental and planning law, product safety and product liability law, EU law, aviation law, export control law as well as advising on public-private partnership projects and government affairs.

He represents companies, authorities and associations before the civil and administrative courts as well as the ECJ and CFI, including the German Airports Association (ADV), airlines, various federal ministries and industrial companies. Ludger Giesberts has many years of experience in representing various federal authorities in (EU) state liability and public liability matters.

Ludger Giesberts is responsible for the area of ESG across all practice groups in Germany. He is Co-Head of the AKD Partners International Product Stewardship and Product Liability Steering Group. He is also a member of the firm-wide Brexit Committee, which coordinates and implements the firm's strategy with regard to the legal consequences of Brexit.

In the area of environmental law, Ludger advises, inter alia, on product-related environmental law, licensing law, waste and disposal law, emmission, soil and water protection and nature conservation law. Ludger also advises on environmental and planning law issues in infrastructure projects and M&A transactions as well as foreign trade law issues in this regard. He also has extensive experience in industrial and occupational accidents and other crisis and incident situations.

In the area of product law, Ludger advises on product compliance issues such as product responsibility, product liability and product safety. He has extensive experience in packaging law and on product labelling obligations and the coordination of worldwide product recalls.

Areas of FocusRegulatory and Government Affairs Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Environment, Health and Safety International Trade Industrials Consumer Goods, Food and Retail Infrastructure, Construction and Transport

Professional QualificationsRechtsanwalt admitted with Rechtsanwaltskammer Cologne

EXPERIENCE

Languages

Awards

Education

Universities of Trier and Bonn, First and Second State Examination, Dr. jur.

London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.M.

The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Magister Rerum Publicarum

Publications

Ludger Giesberts is the author of numerous book contributions and over 110 publications. He is, amongst others, co-editor of the journal "KlimaRZ Zeitschrift für materielles und prozessuales Klimarecht" (Journal for substantive and procedural climate law) published by Fachmedien Otto Schmidt and of the Beck'sche Online Commentary Giesberts/Reinhardt "Umweltrecht" (Environmental law). Ludger Giesberts is a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Airport Management" and initiator and organizer of the conference "Deutsche Luftfahrttage" (German Aviation Days).

Associations' Actions for Collective Interests - The EU Directive and the Draft German Implementation Act, ZfPC 2023, p. 7 ff.
Who is actually deciding here? Climate protection between legislature and judiciary, together with Dr. Wolfgang Haas in Börsenzeitung, pp. 20, 1.12.2022
Collective Interests and Climate Lawsuits, KlimaRZ 7-8/2022, p. 161, 15.11.2022
Due diligence obligations for the supply chain - The German law and the EU draft directive, NVwZ 20/2022, pp. 1497, 15.10.2022
Climate change in court (together with Dr. Wolfgang Haas), KlimaRZ 1/2022, p. 3 ff., 15.5.2022
"Diesel traffic bans" exceptionally possible ("'Diesel-Verkehrsverbote' ausnahmsweise möglich!"), Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht (NVwZ) 2018, p. 1276 et seqq
Giesberts/Reinhardt, Beck's online commentary environmental law ("Beck'scher Onlinekommentar Umweltrecht"), continuously updated, printed version: 2nd edition 2018
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act, Commentary ("Elektronikgerätegesetz – ElektroG, Kommentar"), publishing house Beck Verlag , 3rd edition 2018
Giesberts/Kastelec, The fracking regulatory package ("Das Regelungspaket zum Fracking"), Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht (NVwZ) 2017, p. 360 et seqq
Current issues concerning the fee collection according to Sec. 19b of the German Aviation Act ("Aktuelle Fragen der Entgelterhebung nach § 19b LuftVG"), Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht (ZLW) 2016, p. 328 et seqq

Prior Experience

Ludger became a Partner at AKD Partners in March 2008. Before that, he worked for another international law firm for 15 years (10 years as a partner).

Lecturer

Ludger is a honorary professor (Honorarprofessor) at the University of Cologne, where he lectures on German public economic law, EU and communal law.

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